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7 Ethics Tips For Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

PMI defines ethics like this: Ethics is about making the best possible decisions concerning people, resources and the environment. Being able to act as a credible, trusted leader is dependent on you and your team making ethical choices about how you manage and lead the work. Ethics Tip #1: Disclose Your Interests.

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Develop Better High Performing Teams

ProjectManager.com

As we ease into the new year, many organizations’ executive teams are ramping up hiring for new talent. All these efforts require precise judgment to hire just-in-time talent, using data to make strategic project decisions at a portfolio, program and project level and launching new high performing teams.

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How to Build Trust in Virtual Teams [Book Review & Tips]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Trust matters because it helps build a resilient project team. Trusted team members not only do only what is asked, but what the project needs them to do, because they know that the project manager will trust their decisions and actions. . Wise’s book, Trust in Virtual Teams. Read next: Tips for Effective Virtual Meetings.

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Tips & Tricks to facilitate Sprint Planning

Scrum.org

In this blog post, I share some tips and tricks that may help you facilitate strong Sprint Planning outcomes, so that your Scrum Team will have a great start into their Sprint. Your team needs to overcome the Groan Zone to avoid weak outcomes that lead to a poor Sprint! What is facilitation?

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How to manage team conflict (& 5 strategies for conflict resolution)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. Conflict should be a healthy part of any team’s development, and it’ a good way to challenge requirements and ensure that your business case and plans stand up to scrutiny.

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What Is Demand Planning? Tips, Strategies and Tools

ProjectManager.com

The other side of the coin is poor production planning , which can leave you unable to respond to demand—all because you didn’t have adequate demand forecasting to analyze sales and customer needs. Either way, you lose money due to poor demand management. Let Your Teams Work Their Way. That’s a lot of loss to deal with.

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How to Be a Productive Project Manager: 7 Tips

Project Risk Coach

Susan, the project manager, had a gnawing feeling that the network team might fall behind schedule on a high profile project. The network manager failed to order the network cable and routers on time, and now the team is scrambling to make ends meet. However, here are some tips. What behaviors does the team desire?

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